BA4380 - Business Policy and Strategy

Company and industry research resources. Tips for finding information in library databases, governmental sources, company portals, and other research websites. Designed for Professor Matt Gilley's course in Fall 2017.

Advanced Search box - the gear icon from a Google search will bring up the Advanced Search

A useful browser feature is to search for text on a webpage - use Control-F (PC) or Command-F (Mac) and search for your word.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar offers several features of interest to scholars. You will want to use Google Scholar, in combination with library databases, to cast the widest net to find sources. For example, library databases often do not include conference proceedings articles. Google Scholar will often find conference articles.

Search and Results

Quotes - search by phrase using ("") with either a topic or article title

Advanced Search - use the drop-down arrow, on the right, after your initial search to

limit to a specific author

limit by a specific publication

limit by date

Cited By - Scholar results will show the articles and books that have cited a work since it was published.

Settings and Accounts

Settings - customize your search result experience

Results per page - can increase and tell to open results in new window

Library links - add St. Mary's University to see full-text results from our library databases

Claim Profile - published authors can create a profile to showing publications and their impact

Metrics

Impact - number of times articles from a particular publication have been cited in the past 5 years

Journals by Discipline - highest cited journals by discipline

Search by Journal Title - look for an individual journal to get an idea of impact and articles with highest number of citations

Google Scholar Metrics provide users with a way to gauge the influence of journal articles and scholarly works. The Google Scholar Metrics Help pages provide more information about how Google calculates metrics.